NR | 1h 39m | Drama | 1939
Director Harold Bucquet’s introductory text unashamedly warns that his yarn, set in a little town in America, is “an absurd … stupendous story.” He and his crew make no apologies for their outlandish, fairy-tale plotline, which they claim to have drawn from one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Impishly, Bucquet adds, “Mr. Chaucer liked the tale and believed it—and so do we. If perchance you don’t believe it, we respectfully insist that we and Mr. Chaucer must be right. Because faith still performs miracles and a good deed does find its just reward.”
